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The Gidget movie came out in the spring of 1959.

Gidget is the story of a young blonde teenage gal who spends a fabulous summer at Malibu Beach

with a surfboarders.

Of course, you know Gidget was a very big bestseller and they made it into a tremendous motion picture

in color and in cinemasco.

It starred a 16 year old Sandra D as Gidget.

Hi, I'm Sandra D. It's such fun living in California and being able to pick fresh flowers

for my hair.

Sandra D was tiny and blonde, the Hollywood version of the All-American Girl.

In the movie, Gidget's real name was Frances Lawrence, not Kathy Koner, and she had a

bland American mom and dad right out of a 50s sitcom.

But the real Gidget had a family that was much more layered.

They were European and Jewish.

And for what it's worth, Kathy had dark hair.

In the early 30s, Kathy's father, Frederick Koner, had been a screenwriter in Berlin.

His first film premiered just as Hitler was declaring a boycott on Jewish businesses.

Here's Kathy.

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